opencv houghcircles differences c c++ - c++

Question

I'm introducing myself in OpenCV (in order for an software project at university) and found a tutorial for color circle detection which I adapted and tested. It was written with OpenCV 1 in C. So I tried to convert it to OpenCv 2 classes API and everything was fine, but I ran into one problem:
The C function cvHoughCircles produces other results than the C++ function HoughCircles.
The C version finds my test circle and has a low rate of false positives, but the C++ version has a significantly higher mistake rate.
//My C implementation
IplImage *img = cvQueryFrame( capture );
CvSize size = cvGetSize(img);
IplImage *hsv = cvCreateImage(size, IPL_DEPTH_8U, 3);
cvCvtColor(img, hsv, CV_BGR2HSV);
CvMat *mask = cvCreateMat(size.height, size.width, CV_8UC1);
cvInRangeS(hsv, cvScalar(107, 61, 0, 0), cvScalar(134, 255, 255, 0), mask);
/* Copy mask into a grayscale image */
IplImage *hough_in = cvCreateImage(size, 8, 1);
cvCopy(mask, hough_in, NULL);
cvSmooth(hough_in, hough_in, CV_GAUSSIAN, 15, 15, 0, 0);
cvShowImage("mask",hough_in);
/* Run the Hough function */
CvMemStorage *storage = cvCreateMemStorage(0);
CvSeq *circles = cvHoughCircles(hough_in, storage, CV_HOUGH_GRADIENT,
4, size.height/4, 100, 40, 0, 0);
// ... iterating over all found circles
this works pretty well
//My C++ implementation
cv::Mat img;
cap.read(img);
cv::Size size(img.cols,img.rows);
cv::Mat hsv(size, IPL_DEPTH_8U, 3);
cv::cvtColor(img, hsv, CV_BGR2HSV);
cv::Mat mask(size.height, size.width, CV_8UC1);
cv::inRange(hsv, cv::Scalar(107, 61, 0, 0), cv::Scalar(134, 255, 255, 0), mask);
GaussianBlur( mask, mask, cv::Size(15, 15), 0, 0 );
/* Run the Hough function */
imshow("mask",mask);
vector<cv::Vec3f> circles;
cv::HoughCircles(mask, circles, CV_HOUGH_GRADIENT,
4, size.height/4, 100, 140, 0, 0);
// ... iterating over all found circles
As you can see, I use same arguments to all calls. I tested this with a webcam and a static sample object.One requirement is to use OpenCV2 C++ API.
Does anybody know, why I get so different results under equivalent conditions?
Edit
The different threshold values was just a mistake when I tested to make results more equally. These screenshots are taken with threshold set to 40 for both versions:
Screenshots: (Sorry, cannot yet post images)
C and C++ version

Answer 1

I see Hough parameters in C version as "..., 100, 40, 0, 0); " while in C++ version as "... 100, 140, 0, 0);" This difference in thresholds probably explains the difference in results.